This page contains a variety of statistics about Fedora's usage. The Fedora Project believes that metrics are an important tool .
Who uses Fedora?
Fedora 10 (Cambridge)
Cambridge was released on 2008-11-25.
Yum Data
Current release connections
| Connections to yum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Dates | New Unique IPs | Total Unique IPs | Total compared to Sulphur |
| Week 1 | 2008-11-25 -- 2008-12-01 | 67,421 | 67,421 | 73% |
| Week 2 | 2008-12-02 -- 2008-12-08 | 81,674 | 149,095 | 97% |
| Week 3 | 2008-12-09 -- 2008-12-15 | 60,759 | 209,854 | 97% |
| Week 4 | 2008-12-16 -- 2008-12-22 | 62,527 | 272,381 | 93% |
Total repository connections
| Total connections to repositories (as of 2008-12-22) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method | Fedora 7 | Fedora 8 | Fedora 9 | Fedora 10 | Rawhide | TOTAL |
| Mixed | 3,434,133 | 4,150,288 | 2,019,405 | 272,381 | 525,866 | 10,402,073 |
| New | 4,244,451 | 2,189,238 | 272,381 | 525,866 | ||
It's uncertain whether the old method was properly counting all unique IPs. The new method works incrementally, and thus takes longer, but should be slightly more accurate.
Accuracy of metrics
The numbers above for yum represent unique IP addresses that reach our update server, not simply downloads. We believe it is reasonable to equate a "new IP address checking in" with "a new installation of Fedora", with the following caveats:
- Users who have dynamic IP addresses will likely be counted multiple times, which inflates the number by some amount.
- Users who are behind NAT or corporate proxies will not be counted at all.
The anecdotal evidence that we receive from different groups, companies, and organizations suggests that group (2) is significantly larger than group (1). As such, we believe that the true numbers in the field are higher than the numbers on this page.
Smolt Data
Smolt is Fedora's hardware profiling project. It is an opt-in database that tracks unique installations of Fedora, and various details about that install. People who install to runlevel 5 will be able to opt-in during firstboot, but people who install to runlevel 3 will have to install the smolt client via yum and manually register.
BitTorrent
The following table shows the number of downloads that have been made over BitTorrent.
| Downloads from bittorrent | ||
|---|---|---|
| Werewolf (F8) | Sulphur (F9) | Cambridge (F10) |
| 444,597 | 426,417 | 104,096 (as of 2008-12-23) |
Direct Download
The following table shows the number of direct downloads of Fedora 41 media, as shown in the web proxy logs.
| Direct downloads from the web | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Dates | Downloads this week | Total downloads |
| Week 1 | 2008-11-25 -- 2008-12-01 | 79,635 | 79,635 |
| Week 2 | 2008-12-02 -- 2008-12-08 | 34,903 | 114,538 |
| Week 3 | 2008-12-09 -- 2008-12-15 | 26,925 | 141,463 |
fedoraproject.org unique visitors
| fedoraproject.org visitors | |
|---|---|
| Period | Unique IPs |
| January 2008 | 785,583 |
| February 2008 | 782,043 |
| March 2008 | 830,078 |
| April 2008 | 723,776 |
| May 2008 | 1,128,115 |
| June 2008 | 825,912 |
| July 2008 | 751,521 |
| August 2008 | 773,209 |
| September 2008 | 1,461,490 |
| October 2008 | 1,351,477 |
| November 2008 | 1,993,547 (all-time monthly high) |
Edits to Fedora wiki
| Fedora wiki edits | ||
|---|---|---|
| Period | Total edits | Edits from unique IPs |
| October 2007 | 921 | 426 |
| November 2007 | 1,090 | 472 |
| December 2007 | 807 | 378 |
| January 2008 | 1,170 | 580 |
| February 2008 | 1,244 | 645 |
| March 2008 | 1,280 | 705 |
| April 2008 | 1,283 | 755 |
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Maps
A variety of maps showing various statistics.
Ambassadors
Information about the number of Fedora Ambassadors .
Legacy Statistics
Older releases and years are on the Legacy statistics page.
Commands
Information on how these statistics are gathered is found here.